| LC control no. | n 50003492 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Organisation Armée secrète |
| Variant(s) | O.A.S. OAS Organisation de l'armée secrète (France) Secret Army Organization (France) |
| Beginning date | 1961 |
| Ending date | 1962 |
| Associated country | France Algeria |
| Field of activity | Algeria--History--Autonomy and independence movements Algeria--History--Revolution, 1954-1962 France--Colonies French--Algeria |
| Found in | La Nef. Histoire de la guerre d'Algérie, 1962. Wikipedia, March 10, 2018 (Organisation armée secrète, OAS; short-lived right-wing French dissident paramilitary organization during the Algerian War (1954-1962); carried out terrorist attacks in an attempt to prevent Algeria's independence from French colonial rule; formed out of existing networks which had carried out attacks on the FLN (Algerian National Liberation Front) since early in the war; officially formed in Francoist Spain, in Madrid, January 1961, as a response by some to the 8 January 1961 referendum on self-determination concerning Algeria, organized by de Gaulle; did bombings and assassinations in both France and Algeria, estimated to have caused 2000 deaths between April 1961 and April 1962) |
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